What is the best course of action if your lane is doing well and all other lanes are feeding?

GeneralZarnik·6/18/2019, 11:06:42 PM·1 votes·1,430 views

I recently played a game where, in bot, we routed the adc and support and got multiple kills on the jungle. However top was 06, mid 04 and the jungler couldn't overturn the damage so we had a very fed top lane and mid lane who snowballed and we couldn't push bot any further. What is the best course of action to keep from losing that kind of a game? The team is down and discouraged, tense and angry and no one wants to work together or listen to pings and not enough vision. How can you turn a game like that around, what's a good strategy or game plan?

6 Comments

JetRam6/18/2019, 11:18:24 PM3 votes

Roam and secure objectives. A large amount of the time fed players will roam around (often on auto-pilot) and gank other lanes racking up kills like it's a COD game. This accomplishes a lot less than they think.

You ideally want to Kill/pressure out the enemy from zones with your lead and take objectives (Towers, herald, dragon, baron.) This is much more effective than just ganking your team and getting them assists and maybe a kill since turret gold, dragon buffs, etc impact the whole team instead of just the 1-2 players a kill would.

Anu3isII6/18/2019, 11:27:59 PM1 votes

Yeah, basically what JetRam said. Roaming and assisting your teammates is your best choice. I actually used to play a lot of TwistedFate and there were always match-ups where my opponent would have the upper hand in lane, but I always roamed, resulting in my team being ahead while the opponents had only the mid laner keeping up in gold/exp.

Basically, winning your lane doesn't mean anything if you can't apply pressure on the map or help your team. You would make only one person behind, while the rest of your team may or may not lose. If you want to have more control over what is happening, you have to assist your team more.

Tahminatrix 6/19/2019, 1:49:06 AM1 votes

Variabled, sometimes the best course of action is to either take objectives or focus on defending your turrets / building items to waveclear with and stall the game if your teammates are feeding because they need to scale.